Inventing Elliot
Author(s): Graham Gardner
New Young Adult Fiction (Ages 13+)
After being bullied mercilessly, Elliot is determined to reinvent himself when he moves house with Mum and Dad and goes to a new school. He is going to be so cool that no one will touch him. He's going to stand out just enough not to get noticed. But he is too successful, and he does get noticed by the Guardians. They are a mysterious group of three who manipulate others and run the school with a reign of terror. They invite Elliot to become one of them. He faces an agonising decision, whether to use this new found power or risk standing up for himself and facing the consequences.
Product Information
The critically-acclaimed psychological novel about what happens when a young teenager decides to become a different person.
Shortlisted for Southern Schools Book Award 2005 and Salford Book Award 2005.
Graham Gardner is the second of ten children. He has worked as a bookseller, waiter, civil servant and is now an academic researcher in the Institute of Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, specialising in monitoring and analysing long term trends in the UK countryside. He is also a keen musician, playing rock and classical piano.
General Fields
- :
- : Hachette Children's Group
- : Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.186
- : 01 January 2004
- : 198mm X 131mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Graham Gardner
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.92
- : 192